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Young boys walk through a section of a flooded residential area in Belet Weyne, Somalia. — courtesy UN Photo/Ilyas Ahmed
Avoid ‘risky winner-take-all tactics’ in Somalia, UN Security Council hears
NEW YORK — Increased “brinkmanship, pressure tactics, and tests of strength” are threatening progress in Somalia, the country’s UN envoy told the Security Council on Monday, warning that they must be resolved “through dialogue and compromise”.“Growing political tensions threaten Somalia’s State-building progress and even security,” Special Representative and Head of the UN Assistance Mission (UNSOM) James Swan said via videoconference.“I urge all of Somalia’s political leaders to pull back from confrontation and avoid risky winner-take-all tactics,” he underscored.Escalating ‘rhetoric and actions’ A political standoff among Somali leaders has “blocked” the electoral model agreed upon by the Federal Government (FGS) and Federal Member State (FMS) leaders on...
February 23, 2021

Avoid ‘risky winner-take-all tactics’ in Somalia, UN Security Council hears

A woman, carrying her child, walks back to her home from the fields in D.R. Congo’s restive North Kivu province in this courtesy file photo.
UN chief condemns attack on mission of WFP in D.R Congo
NEW YORK — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned today’s attack against a joint field mission of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Kibumba, near Goma, North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo by unidentified armed elements.The attack resulted in the killing of three people, including the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his bodyguard and a WFP national staff member. The Secretary-General expressed his deepest condolences to the families of the deceased, as well as to the Governments of Italy and the D.R. Congo. He further expresses his full solidarity with the WFP colleagues and the entire United Nations team in the country. The secretary-general called on the government of the D.R. Congo to investigate swiftly this heinous...
February 22, 2021

UN chief condemns attack on mission of WFP in D.R Congo

The ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in Goma, the Italian foreign ministry said on Monday. — Courtesy photo
Italian ambassador killed in D.R. Congo attack
ROME — The ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in Goma, the Italian foreign ministry said on Monday.Luca Attanasio died alongside an Italian soldier after their car was attacked as they traveled in a UN convoy."It is with deep sorrow that the Farnesina confirms the death, today in Goma, of the Ambassador of Italy to the Democratic Republic of Congo Luca Attanasio and of a soldier from the Carabinieri," the ministry said in a statement.Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi has put out a statement expressing his condolences to the families of the Italian ambassador and the soldier, named as Vittorio Iacovacci.The World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement that one of its drivers was killed in the attack.Others in the convoy also sustained...
February 22, 2021

Italian ambassador killed in D.R. Congo attack

Sylvia Chiinda has boosted her income by farming goats. — courtesy UNDP Zambia
The goats helping Zambians to reach economic independence
GENEVA — In Zambia, where the climate crisis is making it increasingly difficult to earn a living, goat-rearing is being seen as a possible route to a better livelihood, and economic resilience.When Sylvia Chiinda’s husband died, she was left to raise seven children on her own. As extreme weather hit more frequently, her farm became less productive, forcing her to look for other ways to make money.Help came in the form of a UN-backed project which is supporting vulnerable women like Chiinda, by training them in goat-rearing and providing them with a stable income, as demand for Zambian goats grows.Read more here about how women supported through the initiative say they have benefited financially as well as gaining a new sense of independence and respect within their villages. — UN...
February 21, 2021

The goats helping Zambians to reach economic independence

At Kres primary school, in Cambodia, the multilingual education curriculum allows children to study in their indigenous language of Kreung, while they learn the national language of Khmer (November 2018). — courtesy UNICEF/Antoine Raab
International Mother Language Day celebrates inclusion at school and in society
GENEVA — The UN educational and cultural agency, UNESCO, has encouraged people everywhere to celebrate the world’s diversity by supporting multilingualism at school and in everyday life: the theme for International Mother Language Day, observed on Sunday.The annual commemoration honors linguistic diversity and multilingualism, which UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay called “this priceless heritage of humanity.”The focus this year is on inclusion, both in the classroom and in society.“This is essential, because when 40 percent of the world's inhabitants do not have access to education in the language they speak or understand best, it hinders their learning, as well as their access to heritage and cultural expressions,” Azoulay said in her message for the Day.“This year, special...
February 21, 2021

International Mother Language Day celebrates inclusion at school and in society

Internally displaced persons, including children, collect water from a broken water main in Uvira, South Kivu, DRC. Waterborne diseases such as cholera are a major threat to displaced populations. — courtesy UNICEF/Patrick Brown
Lives and futures of 3m children in DRC at risk, UNICEF warns
Internally displaced persons, including children, collect water from a broken water main in Uvira, South Kivu, DRC. Waterborne diseases such as cholera are a major threat to displaced populations. — courtesy UNICEF/Patrick BrownGENEVA — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday highlighted the dire situation of some three million displaced children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who face brutal militia violence and extreme hunger.Whole villages have been set ablaze, health centers and schools ransacked, and entire families — including children — hacked to death, in a series of merciless attacks in eastern DRC by fighters using machetes and heavy weapons, UNICEF said in a news release. Communities have been forced to flee with only the barest of...
February 20, 2021

Lives and futures of 3m children in DRC at risk, UNICEF warns

File photo shows an armed individual in the town of Pibor, in Jonglei state, South Sudan. Pibor has seen violent clashes and confrontations that have resulted in displacement as well as destruction of livelihood and property. — courtesy OCHA/Cecilia Attefors
Violence in South Sudan engulfs country, 10 years after independence ‘children all have guns’
JUBA — Extreme violence and attacks involving thousands of fighters at a time have engulfed more than three-quarters of South Sudan, UN human Rights Council-appointed investigators said on Friday, warning that the bloodshed faced by civilians are “the worst recorded” since the country’s civil war began in December 2013.Highlighting a continuing lack of local and national infrastructure almost a year since the formation of the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity in South Sudan, Yasmin Sooka, chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights in the country noted that although the signing of the Revitalized Peace Agreement two years ago had “led to a reduction in hostilities at the national level”, the country seen “a massive escalation in violence” locally.Power...
February 20, 2021

Violence in South Sudan engulfs country, 10 years after independence ‘children all have guns’

File photo shows children standing before the remains of Mogadishu cathedral, built by the Italian colonial authorities in Somalia. — courtesy IRIN/Kate Holt
‘Exercise restraint and calm’, UN chief urges after violent outbreak in Somalia
NEW YORK — The UN chief expressed grave concern on Friday over an outbreak of violence in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Farhan Haq, Secretary-General António Guterres called on all parties to “exercise restraint and calm”. Gunfire erupted between Somali government troops and opposition supporters during a protest march against delayed elections that turned violent.Demonstrators said that the government forces had attacked them first and residents reported sporadic shooting and that rocket-propelled grenades had been fired, according to news sources.The violence followed fighting overnight that had subsided by Friday afternoon.Political impasse While lawmakers were due to select a new president on Feb, 8, the process has been...
February 20, 2021

‘Exercise restraint and calm’, UN chief urges after violent outbreak in Somalia

The hostel from where the students were abducted. The gunmen, wearing military fatigues according to residents, stormed the Government Science Secondary School Kagara at around 2 a.m. on Wednesday. — Courtesy photo
Fears for dozens of students after armed men storm school in Nigeria
ABUJA — Dozens of students were feared abducted after armed men raided a state-run school in Niger state, in Nigeria's Middle Belt region early Wednesday. One student was killed during the abduction, a resident said.The gunmen, wearing military fatigues according to witnesses, stormed the Government Science Secondary School Kagara at around 2 a.m. on Wednesday morning.The number of students and staff members kidnapped by the assailants from the boarding facility housing hundreds of schoolchildren is still unknown.A spokesperson for the police in Niger did not return a request for comments on Wednesday morning.According to Abubakar Mohammed, a Kagara resident, one student was killed by the gunmen."At about 2 a.m., they stormed the staff quarters of the school," said Mohammed...
February 17, 2021

Fears for dozens of students after armed men storm school in Nigeria

UNHCR says that killings and kidnappings have continued in North Kivu in the DRC in 2021. — courtesy UNHCR/Frederic Noy
Armed group atrocities creating havoc in eastern DRC: UNHCR
GENEVA — Atrocities committed by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have become part of a systematic pattern to disrupt lives, instill fear and create havoc, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday, expressing alarm over the ongoing situation.A record of more than 2,000 civilians were killed in three eastern provinces last year in attacks mainly attributed to armed groups, agency partners have reported.The violence has continued into this year. The most recent incident occurred in late January, when two men were killed and six others were seriously injured following an incursion into a site for forcibly displaced people in Masisi Territory, North Kivu province.Raids, curfews and ‘security’ payments UNHCR Spokesperson Babor Baloch said that three...
February 17, 2021

Armed group atrocities creating havoc in eastern DRC: UNHCR

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